Finally getting round to reading The Invisible Doctrine. Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @peterhutchison.bsky.social. Wish I'd had this back at the beginning of the century - would have made my years of constitutional law and jurisprudence SO much easier! Can thoroughly recommend.

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Invisible Doctrine "To make our various crises seem unrelated. In fact, they have all been exacerbated by the 'invisible doctrine', which subordinates democracy to the power of money. Tracing a direct line from neoliberalism to fascism, which preys on people’s desperation."

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5. George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison in their book, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024), express the belief that one of the reasons that ‘general prosperity rose steadily’ after the Second World War was ‘the rise of social democracy’.

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There's been some great, accessible books in recent years documenting how you can either have democracy or you can have (predatory) capitalism, but you can't really have both. @quinnslobodian.com & @georgemonbiot.bsky.social here for starters

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social is coming to Dundee! Join us for an evening hosted by @assasr.bsky.social discussing his most recent book The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism. Tickets are available at: makehopepossible.org/event/an-eve...

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